A member of Canada’s Cinema Editors Honours Society and known as one of Canada’s respected picture editors, Teresa Hannigan has spent the last few years editing some of Canada’s best dramatic television series with many of the countries top directors. Her numerous television editing credits include episodes of The Eleventh Hour, Flashpoint, and Ghostly Encounters and Rookie Blue. Hannigan received a “Best Picture Editing” Gemini Award nomination for an episode of The Eleventh Hour. In 2006, she directed and edited the short drama Snapshots of Henry, which earned her a Genie nomination for “Best Live Action Short Drama” and in 2013 she began directing episodes of the dramatic television series, Rookie Blue.
In feature length projects, Hannigan edited the Toronto International Film Festival’s “Best Canadian Feature Film” Cairo Time (2009) directed by Ruba Nadda, as well as Nadda’s next film Inescapable (2011). In 2008, Hannigan won the Directors Guild of Canada “Best Picture Editing” Award for Television Movie/Mini-Series for her work on David Wellington’s Would be Kings.
Hannigan graduated with honours from Sheridan College’s Media Arts program where her thesis film, A Different Sympathy, was a documentary about a music therapist and her work with mentally handicapped individuals at Oaklands Regional Centre in Oakville, Ontario. The film toured festivals and was used by the institution in their volunteer program. Hannigan credits her career path to a chance meeting with Tom Berner, an editor who has lent a helping hand to many of this country’s independents.
Hannigan is an alumna of WIDC in Banff and has returned twice as Mentor Editor.